1. native americans passed down their traditions from generation to generation through what?

Through spoken language the Native Americans pass down their traditions from generation to generation.

Explanation:

The Native Americans were famous for passing oral tradition. Native Americans use sacred herbs including tobacco and sage. Generosity as well as good deeds were respected . Native Americans believed in spirits known as Wakan Takan .

The Native Americans not only contributed in production of corn and squash but it also influenced the life of the people as well as music , art, literature government and the law. The ceremony that the tribes performed were singing, prayers that were performed in ancient languages and fasting.

the reason the welfare system causes so much of a burden on its recipients is because the welfare system does not give its recipients any real tools to actually get out of poverty. the welfare system has embedded poverty deeper into society and has made it harder and harder for people to escape poverty.

in other words, it stoped the poor, and now its making it worse.

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it depends on which society you are referring to. many civilization performed rituals so the gods would with their growing season but the most well known is that of the aztecs. they would make sacrifices, usually animals, but sometimes humans as well.